Docky finally removed from GNOME Do

By , Published March 8, 2010

GNOME Do developer Alex Launi announced this morning that, finally, Do and Docky are now separate applications.

When we broke the news that Docky and GNOME Do were to split, back in October of last year, many of you were worried for the future of one the best desktop applications available for the Ubuntu desktop. We quickly interviewed Docky developer Jason Smith to help get a grip on where solo Docky would be heading and his promise of Docky becoming even more awesome has certainly come to pass.

But where now for GNOME Do itself?

“Do is going to be the most kickass launcher/everything-else-do-does you've ever seen.” ~ Alex Launi, Do Developer

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    I really do hope that this allows both projects to flourish further. Would be nice to see some of that Dan Rabbit magic from the mockups posted a while ago come to life in the next version of Docky.

  • Anonymous

    Docky is awesome. I hope it will get even better..
    Waiting that emesene plugin..

    • Anonymous

      I merged it today, so expect it to arrive in an update sometime soon. You’ll need to be using the svn version of emesene too!

  • http://twitter.com/gebagu Grigori

    i love do … it’s pretty and one is really quick using it.
    don’t really need to touch my dirty mouse anymore ;)

  • http://twitter.com/flux_box LuigiMarco Simonetti

    nooo! Why I have to install 2 applications? nooo!

    • Anonymous

      so that they can both be the best they can be.

  • Nate

    What I want to know is when sill we see integration between the two again? Surely we’ve gotta be getting closed to the promised release of a docky with do integration? I really kinda miss the integration, it was really really slick. I’m excited to see where both apps go, but I’m still anxious for integration to return.

  • http://twitter.com/asthealexflies Alex Crowe

    I certainly won’t be upgrading, I find the combination of Do and Docky great, as Luigi said why run two apps! they both launch apps surely that is enough to keep them together.

    Maybe ill be sticking with my current version, I would love the new Docky stuff but without Do functionality ill stick with what I have

  • tud

    i for one like it
    i didnt really like having a dock but loved Do
    now everyone can have what they want

  • pt

    The main issue with this is that without Gnome-Do Docky becomes an average dock, making AWN a better choice.
    As for Gnome Do the docky interface was useful as it’s visibility was not intrusive.

    But with all the new application helpers and dbus improvements this can trigger Docky to become a more smarter dock.

    • js

      Docky is extremely slow too on nVidia cards with the way it now renders tooltips. Pulling Docky from Do is a bad deign move as Do made Docky great and Docky made Do. It’s getting bloated now with many useless features. I guess I’ll retain this old deprecated version of Do.

  • http://ghetto.k2city.eu Matej MoÅ¡ko

    Since the spearation of docky development, this is one really bad move. I started to use docky, when it first appeared in Gnome-Do. Before I have never thought of docks, while they were too resources-eaters. I really loved the simplicity and lihtweightness of gnome-do with docky and untill now I still use it as my main application switcher.

    Frankly, I cannot understand the outcome of Docky 2.0. Actually I cannot tell it from AWN or Cairo. Therefore I do not use it. It is too big resources-eater. I stick with Gnome-Do with Docky interface. And now this info. Let me show you numbers:

    Gnome-Do with Docky: 34 MBit
    Docky: 50 MBit
    Gnome-Do without Docky 20 MBit

    Result: Using two separate apps that actually already have been together doubles the RAM usage. Where is the point of switching to this solution instead of sticking with Gnome-do 0.8.2? I really don’t know and I hope that somebody with good skill of at least compiling will help the best dock ever “Gnome-Do 0.8 series” be functional on future linux distros.

    Otherwise I will turn to the second best solution: DockBarX